Chapter 219 218. Encountering a Ghost on the Road (Please Subscribe!)
Snowflakes were floating in the sky.

This year, perhaps because of the Hongze Lake, the snow fell particularly early and heavily.

Snowflakes were flying, and under the slightly dark gray sky, a dirt road stretched out in twists and turns.

On both sides are stretches of farmland, but unfortunately there is no indigo now, only withered and yellow branches bleak in the cold wind.

The scenery inevitably looks a bit heavy.

Ring ring ring.
The sudden ringing of a clear bell broke the heaviness of the place.

At the end of one side of the muddy road, there appeared two donkeys with bells hanging around their necks.

Two donkeys came breathing hot air, carrying a man and a woman on their backs. Every time they moved, their bells jingled, making crisp sounds.

The man was wearing a plain Taoist robe. The style was simple and the material was ordinary, but when worn by this Taoist, it had a unique air of being an immortal.

The woman was a girl of eight or nine years old, also dressed thinly, only wearing a single piece of clothing in this snowy season.

He held a steaming pancake in both hands and finished it in a few bites, then took out a new pancake from somewhere.

A white rat, three parts whiter than snow, stood up on the shoulder and looked at the nearby scenery.

This man and woman are naturally Xu Qing and Bai Lele, who are leaving Huai'an and preparing to go to the capital.

This time on the trip to the imperial capital, Xu Qing planned to walk slowly and experience the customs and practices along the way.

Sometimes, when I feel like it, I will stay in a place for a few days.

Bai Lele looked heartless and was willing to follow Xu Qing wherever he went.

Just don't give her too much food.

Two donkeys were walking leisurely, and a village in front came into view.

Xu Qing glanced at the village which seemed somewhat quiet, even dead silent.

It is said that auspicious snow heralds a good harvest.

The harvest will be abundant next year, but the poor people who are surviving the winter now will suffer.

In order to save firewood and food, these villagers could only stay in bed as much as possible.

This makes it seem a bit dead.

However, even so, some people inevitably die every winter.

Xu Qing sighed slightly, wondering how many people would be frozen to death in this cold winter.

The two donkeys didn't have so many complicated thoughts. They just took one step deep and one step shallow, carrying the two people and walking slowly on the muddy road.

Four lines of footprints spread out and were gradually covered by the falling snowflakes.

When passing by a dead and silent village similar to the previous one, Zhong Nengshu's eyes suddenly became solemn.

"Something is wrong with this village!"

"Hmm." Xu Qing exhaled lightly, "Death energy and ghost energy are gathering together. I'm afraid there are ghosts causing trouble. And there is more than one ghost."

Looking closely, the view was filled with a gloomy and evil atmosphere.

At this time, the withered yellow leaves on the roadside trees fell and were picked up by the howling cold wind, floating like paper money in the sky above this lonely village.

Zhong Nengshu's expression was very ugly: "Not only that, I smell the scent of those two guys here!"

Those two guys are the one wearing a Qilin mask and the other wearing a Taotie mask.

Xu Qing was also a little surprised when he heard this, and a golden flame-like light immediately flashed in his eyes.

Tangible and material things are stripped away, leaving only the most essential things, and a picture of intertwined cause and effect comes into view.

Xu Qing's gaze was fixed on the two lines of cause and effect.

He was very familiar with those two causal lines, but at this time they had been cut off and were floating above the village, with no trace left.

Xu Qing can only use the Golden Eye Divine Pupil to check the causal line, but he cannot use the causal line to check the whole story. Now that the causal line has been cut off, it is impossible to track it, not to mention that Xu Qing would not go even if he could track it.

That "Qilin" is already the seventh level of the best in the world. Even if he has a life-saving purple talisman, he will die if he goes there.

However, from the current perspective, the ghost disaster in this village seems to be caused by those two people.

"Let's go in and have a look."

Xu Qing jumped off the donkey and led it into the village.

Everyone in the village was very surprised at the sudden appearance of the two people, especially when they saw Xu Qing wearing a Taoist robe.

The excitement on his face was visible to the naked eye.

When he was outside the village, Xu Qing knew that there were still some people living in the village.

"Father-in-law"

As soon as Xu Qing opened his mouth, several gray-haired old men ran out and surrounded him:

"Great! The government finally sent someone!"

"Master, please, save our village!"

"Master, if you don't come, our village will be disbanded."

"Taoist Master."

Xu Qing quickly waved his hands, signaling everyone to be quiet.

Several old men quickly shut their mouths, and then the most prestigious old man among them spoke up:
"Master, we are too excited. Those ghosts have killed many people in the village and scared away the rest."

"Now the whole village is almost becoming a dead village!"

"Don't get excited, old man." Xu Qing nodded. This group of old men must have mistaken him for a cultivator sent by the government to eliminate the evil spirits.

But since he had encountered it, he didn't mind solving the ghost disaster here.

"What exactly happened in this village? Please tell me in detail, father-in-law, so that I can prescribe the right medicine." Xu Qing said slowly.

The old men were so excited when they heard this that their hands were shaking.

Xu Qing waited patiently for them to calm down, then heard the old man say:
"We don't actually know what happened. We only know that one day, the villagers went to the fields to cultivate the land and suddenly all died."

"When we heard the news, we were both sad and shocked, and we immediately asked the government officials to come and check what was going on."

"But the police inspected the area and found nothing unusual. They finally guessed that a monster might have passed by and killed them."

At this point, my father-in-law and several other elderly people all looked sad and angry.

So many people died in this sudden disaster. Every family in the village hung white silk ribbons, and the grief and anger in their hearts were beyond words.

Xu Qing did not say anything to comfort her because he knew there was more to come.

The father-in-law's eyes were red, but he also knew that the matter was over and the living had to continue living, so he wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and continued:

"After hearing what the official said, no matter how angry we are, there is nothing we can do but bury the dead."

"But that night, someone knocked on every door, asking where her two children were."

"We all know that person. She is the wife of Dahei from the village. She has two children."

"But she was also one of those who died in the field that day, and her two sons died beside her."

"He died from having his heart dug out!"

Xu Qing roughly understood the whole story: "So the woman turned into a ghost after her death and searched for her child. When she couldn't find the child, she started killing people?"

"That's right, that's it."

"There was nothing wrong on the first night, but from the second night onwards, they started killing people, one family died every night."

(End of this chapter)